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Hayley is a roadstaffer for the Spring 2016 Send Silence Packing tour. Read her other blog posts here. Now that we’re done with the tour, and I’ve been home for a few days, I’m having trouble comprehending or putting words to how this whole transition feels. Coming to terms with post-tour “real life” will come…

Casey is a roadstaffer for the Spring 2016 Send Silence Packing tour. Read his other blog posts here. Anyone who follows me on Snapchat should know from my time as a SSP Road Staffer was that I really liked using that app. With the addition of Geofilters, Snapchat users are able to bring up a…

Casey is a roadstaffer for the Spring 2016 Send Silence Packing tour. Read his other blog posts here. My time as a Send Silence Packing Road Staffer has been incredible. Never in my life did I think that I’d be able to travel the United States recently out of college spreading awareness about a topic…

Hello from the American south! I’m Casey O’Neill and I’m the newest addition to the Send Silence Packing team! Hayleyand I were recently brought on to bring the display to 11 different colleges in the south. A little background about myself: 23 years young Proud graduate of Penn State University (WE ARE!!!) Erie, Pennsylvania is…

Hello! My name is Hayley and I’m one of two new Send Silence Packing road staffers for the Spring 2016 tour through the South. I have been staring at the screen trying to decide how to start this blog, so I’m going to start with a few fun facts to get the ball rolling: I…

Send Silence Packing, Active Minds’ traveling suicide prevention exhibit, hit the road this week for its Spring 2016 tour throughout the South. The first stop: Auburn University on March 31! Although the display was relocated to an indoor location due to rain, hundreds of students still made it to the exhibit of 1,100 backpacks, representing…

Meet Lee Duffy-Ledbetter. He’s the coordinator of Send Silence Packing, Active Minds’ traveling exhibit of 1,100 backpacks, representing the number of college students who die by suicide each year. In just a few short weeks, the spring SSP tour will kick off and travel to 12 states throughout the south. But before that happens, we wanted to…

Send Silence Packing, Active Minds’ acclaimed suicide prevention exhibit, is hitting the road again this spring for an incredible tour through the southern states. Send Silence Packing consists of 1,100 donated backpacks, representing the number of college students lost to suicide each year. The program is designed to raise awareness about the incidence and impact…

This past fall, Send Silence Packing embarked on one of its most ambitious tours to date. We started from headquarters in Washington, D.C., and drove all the way across the country to California, hitting stops in the Midwest along the way. Now I could go on and on about what an amazing tour it was,…

The excitement is building here at Active Minds National Office — we’re only a week away from Active Minds’ 12th National Mental Health on Campus Conference (also known as #MHCC15 on social media). And do we have a great weekend planned for you! In addition to must-attend Pre-Conference Leadership Institute sessions, Send Silence Packing display, Welcome Networking…